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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP IQ vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of PostgreSQLColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbpostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbpostgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonSAP, formerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162012200519942012
Current release3.4.2, February 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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